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By Molly Ivins — Calling this lobbying reform measure an “ethics bill” requires brass bravura.
Posted on May 1, 2006
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By Joe Conason — Determining which leaks are bad and which are good can be a murky process.
Posted on Apr 28, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — It’s nice to know that the investigative reporter Jack Anderson is still under investigation, although seriously dead.
Posted on Apr 26, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — A jaded media ignores CBS’ well-documented revelation that the CIA clearly informed Bush that Saddam Hussein had no WMD program.
Posted on Apr 25, 2006
87 COMMENTS
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By Tom Hayden — The veteran social activist warns that an increasingly mainstream anti-war movement can become unwieldy, and prone to loss of focus: “We no longer are a huddling minority…. We are immersed in the gradual soul-searching currents of the mainstream, where loss of direction is a constant risk.”
Posted on Apr 25, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — “A once swaggering president, who so convincingly wielded a bullhorn and modeled a flight suit, now has assumed the pretzel pose of a supplicant attempting to cajole our old enemy in Tehran into dropping its nuclear ambitions while simultaneously initiating talks with Iran aimed at bailing us out in Iraq.”
Posted on Apr 18, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — Colin Powell told me that he and his department’s top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the president followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making the claim.
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By Molly Ivins — “While the top Bushies lunge about test-driving new wars…Congress just keeps right on cranking out those corporate goodies.”
Posted on Apr 10, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — “DeLay’s professions of Christianity make me sick…. He chose to walk with the powerful and do real harm to the very people Jesus mandated we especially care for.”
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By Robert Scheer — Truthdig’s editor wonders how it was that so many enemies of virtue operated under the auspices of such a Christ-like leader as DeLay.
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By Molly Ivins — “On the premise that spring is too beautiful for a depressing topic like Iraq, I thought I’d take up a fun subject—global warming.”
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By Molly Ivins — Ivins weighs in on immigration reform, “The Fence” and corporate America’s demand for cheap labor.
Posted on Mar 30, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — “This is a moment of truth for America. It is time to acknowledge that we need the immigrant workers as much as they need us, and to begin to treat them with the respect they deserve.”
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By Molly Ivins — The more that administration leaders play games with definitions of democracy and weasel wording about torture, the less they can be believed about anything. So if they someday tell the truth, no one will believe them.
Posted on Mar 27, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — “I don’t so much mind that newspapers are dying—it’s watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.”
Posted on Mar 23, 2006
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‘Losing’ the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1
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